Dániel Péter Biró

Dániel Péter Biró is Assistant Professor of Composition and Music Theory at the University of Victoria. Dr. Biró completed his Ph.D . in composition at Princeton University in 2004. He was a Fulbright scholar in Germany. He conducted research of Hungarian folk music at the Academy of Science in Budapest and of Jewish music in Israel. Awarded the Hungarian Government's Kodály Award for Hungarian composers, his compositions have been performed at the Konzerthaus in Vienna, Austria, at the Bartók Festival in Szombathely, Hungary, at the Klangbiennale in Frankfurt, Germany, at the LITSK Festival for Computer Music in Princeton, U.S.A., and have been broadcast on Swiss, Austrian, German, and Italian State radio. Recent commissions come from the Interart Festival Center, Hungary from the Schlachthaus Theater, Switzerland and from the Stuttgart Opera, Germany. In 2005 he was a fellow at the Mannes intitute for advanced studies in Music Theory. In 2006 he was a featured composer and lecturer at the Darmstadt International Summer Courses for New Music where his composition Mishpatim (Laws) Version 2, commissioned by the city of Darmstadt, was performed by the ensemble recherche. In the same year Dániel Péter Biró was a faculty fellow at the University of Victoria Centre for Studies in Religion and Society: there he researched early Jewish and Christian chant traditions.In May 2007 his electroacoustic composition Simanim (Signs, Traces), commissioned by the German Radio (HR) and done in cooperation with the Experimental Studio of the SWR, was premiered by members of the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra. He is currently working on a composition for ensemble and electronics commissioned by Vancouver New Music.